William Tennent

William Tennent (1673-6 May 1746) was an American religious leader and revivalist preacher during the First Great Awakening.

Biography
William Tennent was born in Mid Calder, Linlithgowshire, Scotland in 1673, and he was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1706. He migrated to the Thirteen Colonies in 1718, arriving in Pennsylvania. In 1726, he became the pastor of a Presbyterian church in Warminster, Bucks County, and he established a log cabin religious school in 1727. During the First Great Awakening, Tennent preached in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, leading revivals that dramatized spiritual rebirth with accounts of God's miraculous powers, such as raising Tennent's son from the dead. He died in Warminster in 1746.